For Christmas this year I bought the G007 Spy Camera from Sir Gawain, both to tinker with and to impress upon my grand kids how small, discreet and pervasive surveillance is becoming. Before delving into the more playful aspects, I thought i’de review the different modes of operation that I found confusing in the manual. […]

There’s several ways of propagating properties in Mule deployments based on the environment Mule is running in. Typically we find our projects having at least a Dev, Text and Prod environment, sometimes you may have more like Stage, Perf and others. The property approach follows the same pattern no matter how many differing environments you […]

Bootstrapping component technologies into Mule can be accomplished using Spring beans. In the example below we demonstrates how to pull in Mule flows from a common component and changing the behavior of database caching to utilize C3P0. The import-resource XML stanza looks on the classpath for a resource named common-flows.xml. In our case, the common […]

Micro service API’s need a way of providing liveness events to Clients and Gateway applications. Application frameworks such as Spring Boot provide mechanisms for enabling Health Check implementation automatically through the Actuator. In Mulesoft a simple mechanism like the one below can be added to a common layer and reused in your API’s. The Health […]

In this post we’ll go over a few common commands for interacting with AWS S3 and SQS using Python Boto. These were pulled from the pages of my Jupiter notebook and have been valuable in jump stating new projects. Lets start with an example for listing all S3 buckets: In this example we’ll again list […]

To make your Windows 10 tkinter applications have a pleasant look and feel when running in that environment you’ll have to enable DPI aware, here’s how: This was a short how-to, but hopefully helpful. We look forward to enriching the content with useful examples. 16 Dec 2019 – HowTo make SoapUI 5.2.1 DPI Aware Not […]